Chapter 4: Unexpected help

Tsubaki, a master blacksmith of the Hephaestus Familia sat on a couch with a large bump on her head as she looked down ashamed of herself as Scyron and Hephaestus were sitting at the opposite ends of a table with Tsubaki next to her goddess. The room was a simple office which kind of suprised the demon player. He had expected some kind of more luxury in the office, but instead it was a plain and simply organised room. On the table stood two cups of tea. One for Scyron and one for Hephaestus. After a rather awkward moment silence the goddess spoke up.

"I'd like to apologize for my child's behaviour. She simply got a little... excited." Hephaestus said.

'A little? More like she ate too many cookies and drank an equal amount of coffee crossed with the aggression of a raging dragon.' Scyron thought as he smiled sheepishly and waved her off. "It's fine. I get that kind of reaction more often than I'd like." He said thinking back to the faces of the guild staff when he had delivered the magic stones from the dungeon for the first time. Hephaestus crossed her legs as she folded her hands and put them on her knees.

"Still that item you carry with you is quite an interesting one." The goddess said eyeing the little pouch that was attached on Scyron's pants. "I've been around for quite some time already and I never saw something like this before. Would you mind to sell it to me?" Hephaestus asked. Scyron simply sook his head.

"Sorry, but I'd have to decline. The Bottomless Pouch is quite handy for adventurers like me. Thanks to it I don't need a supporter or anything to collect more drop items and magic stones, than I could carry bare handed." He said. Hephaestus narrowed her eyes at this. Scyron swore that for a second he saw both Tsubaki's and Hephaestus' pupils change into valis symbols.

"450.000 valis." She said bluntly.

"Nope." Scyron said.

"700.000 valis." Hephaestus replied a bit more energic.

"Uh-uh." Scyron shook his head.

"850.000 valis. That's my last offer." Hephaestus said slamming both hands on the table as she got up and leaned over the table.

"My answer is and stays being no." Scyron said. Hephaestus tried to glare Scyron down but the demon remained unfazed. He had already seen more terrifying eyes than that of the red-eyed goddess. There were a few creatures in YGGDRASIL that just had too many of them. After a minute or so Hephaestus sat back down sighing in defeat.

"You really are not giving up, huh?" Hephaestus said crossing her arms.

"No." Scyron said. "Giving up is something I don't like to do. Also I came originally here to sell the drop items." He said. Hephaestus nodded.

"I've seen the items. They are of quite good quality and high in numbers. You must be on Level 3 or 4 to go down there and take so many out with your party." Hephaestus said, almost making Scyron chuckle evilly at the goddess cluelessness. "However, even though the items are rare the items built out of them would cost quite a lot, meaning that I cannot give you such an high prize for them. Also only few of them would be suitable to handle the magic weapons made out of these."

"Magic weapons?" Scyron asked as the black-haired woman spoke up.

"Magic weapons are weapons that can use fire magic. The magic is weaker than a spell from a spellcaster and the sword can only be used a couple of times, but it still is very handy for people who cannot use magic." She said. For Scyron that sounded like another major difference to YGGDRASIL.

'I would have figured that not everyone can use magic, but that the sword would not work anymore after a couple of times is just a shame. Weapons from YGGDRASIL are not supposed to break or get used up, so they can always be used. I ask myself how she would react seeing one of those weapons.' Scyron thought as he shook the thought out of his head. 'Better not do that. Both of them might choke me to death for that.' He thought as he remembered how strong this black haired woman was. "I see. In that case, you can give me your prize for the items and take what you need. I have no use for these items. I guess the merchants will get the rest." He said with a smile. Hephaestus smiled back, though her eyebrow twitched slightly.

"Very well." The goddess said before taking a sip from her tea.

Later in the evening

After selling the most of his drop items, Scyron had returned to the adventurer's guild to get more intel about the dungeon, however Eina had already told him as much as she knew. That's why Scyron had to do it the old fashion way and ask around by himself. After talking with a few merchants on the market place he had gathered a lot more Information about the world around him than about Orario or the dungeon. There was for example the port city Melen that was used by merchants to bring their wares to Orario since the city had no port unlike Melen and was surrounded by plains. Another thing that gained his interest was a kingdom further away from Orario called Rakia. Apparantly gods could turn power hungry as well, because Rakia was nothing, but Ares' personal playground. Scyron had heard the name of this god of war before in YGGDRASIL. However he wouldn't have thought that being a god of war also meant being basically a PKer, because Ares seemed to simply integrate other familias and gods into his own by domination, transforming his own familia slowly into an Independent and powerful nation, that just declared war out of fun at people. Scyron felt disgusted at the thought of such a person. He guessed that this warmongering man just had not attacked Orario yet because of the dungeon and the city being an independent area for all familias. But who knew if a person, that simply absorbed other organizations like some kind of supreme company, cared about that fact.

Now he was back at the Hostess of Fertility, because it was much more comfortable in this inn than in some old house in the outskirts. Mama Mia and the waitresses were suprised to see the demon again as he requested to live for a couple of days in the inn. Mama Mia had nothing against the young man staying in her inn and neither did the waitresses. Right now he was sitting in the bar downstairs and eating in silence as his gear was safe and sound inside his inventory. The people around the bar were occupied with themselves as were the waitresses with their duties. While Scyron looked calm on the outside, a chaos of thoughts ran through his brain. His original plan to simply go and clear the dungeon had to wait until the time was right. Until now he simply didn't knew enough of this world and most importantly he didn't knew if his plan not only would work, but if it could work. This world was not YGGDRASIL after all. Also the Loki Familia hadn't returned from the dungeon yet.

'If the monsters down there are too strong I might have to reveal my demonic self and I would like to keep it secret until the end.' Scyron thought as he thought about the Loki Familia. 'The Loki Familia is one of the two most powerful ones in Orario, only outmatched by the Freya Familia. They are famous because of the many members like Ais Wallenstein, who reached level 2 in just one year. If they would know what I've fought to get on Level 100 they would think twice about their Definition of power. Perhaps I should visit them. It wouldn't suprise me if they would reach the 50th floor tomorrow. Maybe I say hello to them.' He thought as he noticed a sudden Crash. Scyron turned around and saw how two drunk men were about to start a bar fight if Mama Mia had not slammed her fist down the counter, breaking the wood into pieces.

"This is a bar where people go to eat and celebrate! If you want to fight then get outside!" She yelled at the two men, who quickly tossed bags of coins to the counter and ran off. Scyron sweatdropped at this.

'This woman is more intimidating than any World Champion...' He thought. After this he went to his room and sat on his bed, however he simply couldn't find any rest for some unknown reason. 'I still have to test out how far my powers go in this world. Until now, everything went like in YGGDRASIL, but there still could be differences that occur due the Change of the Environment. I better don't test out if respawning still works. So how about something else.' Scyron thought as he opened his inventory and a single Valis coin fell on the blanket of the bed. Then a gold coin from YGGDRASIL fell out, before the rift closed. Grabbing both coins Scyron could tell that his coins were heavier and thicker than the Valis. Putting the money away again he looked at the empty space in front of him. Scyron raised his hand, making his palm face the floor in front of him.

"[Summon Lesser Demon: Shadow Demon]." He said as suddenly a glyph with a pentagram appeared on the ground and glowed in a broght red color. The light died down and a single shadow remained on the ground though nothing did cast the shadow. It was like a big dark spot on the floor with two red glowing eyes. Shadow Demons were anything but strong, however their ability to Camouflage in shadows made them quite useful for engaging enemies in dark places and as monsters below Level 30 a dungeon wouldn't stop spawning them. 'Still my summoning isn't actually my strongest field. Also it will take a lot of time to summon again if I summon to many at once.' Scyron thought as he addressed the demon he had spawned. "Stay at my side for tonight. Should something try to attack me you are free to kill it, but do it silently. We are not alone in this house and only guests." He said. The shadow seemed to nod, before crawling over the ground and rushing beneath Scyron's bed. With that the devil put out the lamp in the room and laid down to sleep.

On the next day

The 50th floor of the dungeon was calm as only monsters from the 49th and the 51th floor had arrived here. However the calm was shattered as a portal appeared in the midair of the floor, drawing the attention of all present monsters to it. Out of the portal emerged Scyron, however in a different armor set as ususally. Instead of his white demonic armor this set of armor was much lighter. Savage looking, black light armor encased him from the shoulders to the feet. Clawed gauntlets were put over his hands. On his back a red cape fluttered around. His head wasn't hidden by helmet, but a snow white mask with sharp shark like teeth. The mask made his eyes look yellow with black scleras. He really looked like a super villian from an old comic book or a manga.

The monsters on the 50th floor reacted the same way to the demonic player as they did last time. They charged with deafening roars at him. Scyron however huffled at this.

"About 40 enemies that cannot even put up a good fight. Get out of my sight." He said as he raised his Hand, pointing at the monsters. "[Ember]." He said as multiple projectiles made of light shot towards the incoming monsters. [Ember] wasn't a really strong spell, however do Scyron's Magic attack power even weak spell like [Ember] could be turned into an attack with the force of a modern rocket launcher. With huge explosions the monsters were literally pulverized as the magic stones fell thumping to the ground. Then the shadow demon in his shadow streched it's limbs out and picked up the magic stones, before it threw them to Scyron who made them disappear in his inventory. "Quite practical to have a little helper in the shadows huh? Thanks buddy." Scyron praised the demon.

After picking up the magic stones he turned to the entrance to the 51th floor as he walked towards it. As he stood directly in front of the entrance he stopped.

"Well I wanted to go grinding anyway. So let's see what's down there." He said to himself as he casually walked into the dark floor. The 51th floor of the dungeon was like a labyrinth and made of stone, though finding a way out of this place wasn't the real Problem here. Just 500 meters in the dungeon the ground beneath his feet suddenly heated up and exploded in a pillar of fire. Scyron barely felt the flames as his defenses simply absorbed the entire force of such a weak attack. He had already walked into those flames when he had been down there before and even with the lighter armor he only felt the air slightly heat up. Scyron simply walked out the flames like nothing happened at all.

However his stride was shortlived as a thick string of silk latched itself on his body. Lazily Scyron eyed the silk and followed it with his eyes up to a wall where a giant spider was sitting. The arachnoid monster pulled at the string to draw her captured prey closer, but it didn't expected Scyron to actually grab the string of silk and yank on it. Like a ragdoll the monster was thrown to the ground with such force that it could have broken a person's spine at this point. However, arachnoids were no vertebrates and only the exoskeleton took the damage, though now the monster was bleeding a colorless liquid and whimpered in pain, while laying on it's back.

"Someone really should call an exterminator down here. These vermins are far too big for comfort." Scyron said as he simply walked up to the monster and crushed it's head by stepping on it. The dungeon seemed to take that as an insult as the ground suddenly erupted more often and frequently as if it was trying to roast the archdevil with it's flames. Spreading his wings Scyron took flight and began to dodge the flames while being in mid air, while advancing further into the dungeon. Though this situation was indeed a dangerous one for the human that he had been, Scyron couldn't help but smile behind his mask. For his demonic being the flames were less than those of candles and dodging them while flying around was almost like a game for him. Still from left and right spider monsters tried to attack him, but never managed to get a hold on him as he eitherused the overgrown arthropods as wrecking balls and threw them with all his power against the rocky walls of the dungeon or simply threw them into the flames that he dodged, making the dungeon kill it's own guardians. Before he knew it he had started to laugh at this situation.

"Come on! Is that all you got? I've seen dungeons with only 3 floors that put better fights up than you!" He said as he shot through the air like a torpedo. When a herd of black rhinos was trying to catch the airborne devil by piling up and pointing their horns outside, making the mass look like a massive cone with spikes, Scyron simply dived deeper and cut he monsters into pieces with his wings. With the monsters at the foundation killed, the pile collapsed under it's own weight, killing even more monsters as they were either crushed by those that fell from above or impaled by the horns of those that were beneath them. This kind of farming remained until he eventually found himself again on the 59th floor.

The 59th floor was a retangular room of a hellish design. Ground made of sharp, red stones and the constant red light in the room made it look like hell. If the floor had been more divided like the upper floors Scyron might have built a house on this floor, but that was just a thought. As Scyron stepped casually into the room the monsters immediately turned to him. All of them were draconic monsters. The red wyverns were called Valgang Dragons, while the airborne blue ones were called Ill Wyverns. Among them were also much larger quadroped red dragons so called Cadmus. All of them shared the look of hatred towards the intruder of their territory as they began closing in. A chuckle escaped Scyron's lips as he looked at the monsters.

"Hello guys. Who of you missed me?" He asked as flames engulfed his hands. The monsters roared at him trying to intimidate him. "Aww. That's so nice of you. Now then who wants to die first?" He asked as he took flight and shot towards the dragon monsters. 'This will be so much fun.' He thought. As he immersed himself in the fight he barely noticed how another kind of monster was heading upwards.

Meanwhile on the 50th floor

The expedition of the Loki Familia arrived at the 50th Floor to rest as they planned to stay there for the rest of the day. However they stopped in their tracks as they saw the battlefield that Scyron had left behind. The craters were regenerating already, but they were still visible as a large area of the floor was filled with them. Standing their shocked they all thought in that moment the very same unspoken question. What had happened here?

"Alright there are currently no monsters on this part of the Floor. There won't be any monsters spawning here, but this is still hostile area unlike the 18th floor, so don't get to comfortable. I want a scouting party and the high level adventurers to look around the dungeons for any monsters." The expedition leader Finn said. The adventurers complied as some of them headed out while others started building up the tents.

"What do you think?" Finn asked Riveria.

"To be honest I don't know." The elf replied. "The necesarry amount of magic to leave such scars to the dungeon is high, much higher than that of an usual magic caster."

"You mean someone with skills like you?" Finn asked. Riveria nodded.

"Also it must have been a group of them given the size of the destroyed area. Each of them must at least be at level 5 and would have to have fought the entire way down here. But there was no other familia that went as deep as we were." The elfish woman said.

"Apparantly there is now. But for today that should be enough. It's late already." Finn said as he walked over to the others to help.

Meanwhile at Orario

Night had fallen over the dungeon city of Orario as magic stone lamps illuminated the main streets where people still walked up and down to reach their destinations. Some were heading to an inn to eat and drink with their colleagues after another hard day of work, while for others the work just started and others again were simply walking back to their homes and/or families to simply lay down and sleep.

The night was also the stage were most crimes happened. In the shadows of alleys buildings thiefs and other criminals were hiding from the broad light to remain hidden by innocent civilians. Waiting for the right moment to strike. However tonight the shadows were the home of an even worse creature than them.

On top of a Building a being that couldn't be called human looked down a group of thiefs as they were waiting for an unfortunate victim to show up. Shrouded in a tattered cloack the creature walked slowly over the rooftop. Each step made a metallic clicking sound as it stalked closer to it's prey. Just when the thugs noticed the cloaked figure on the Roof looking at them, it leapt towards them before they could even scream.

Giant claws tore through muscles and bones with a clean swoop, making blood splatter across the tiles of the road. Four people killed within the beat of an eye. After looking at it's work it jumped back on the rooftops and walked along them, while staying away from the light. It was quite easy though as it was wandering the slums and less safe districts of the city. This creature was also just a summoned demon created by Scyron as he had stayed in the Hostess of Fertility. Before he had departed for the dungeon he had created this demon in a dark alley to give it it's purpose.

Flashback

"[Summon Mid Tier Demon: Devil Tresher]" Scyron said as he a torrent of hellfire was erupting from a gylph in front of him as another monster from YGGDRASIL made it's debut on this world. It was a creature whose Bbdy was encased by a blueish bone-like armor with clawed hands and feet. The arms had a red patagium at the sides resembling the wings of a bat. The head was also partly encased by a skull like mask that resembled the head of some kind of creature as it had two red eyes on both sides. The lower part of the face wasn't covered by armor and looked like a normal human. Because of their appearance some players had given them the nickname Demon Batman and if Scyron had to be honest this creature looked indeed like a superhero. The demon faced it's creator to receive orders.

"A lot is going wrong inside this part of this city. We are currently in the slums. I want you take down any kind of criminal in the night and make sure that no one sees you. Did I made myself clear?" Scyron asked the devil.

"Of course Scyron-sama." It responded in a deep voice.

"Very good. I'll be off for the next day inside the dungeon. When I return I don't want that anyone knows about your face. Now then..." Scyron said as he looked around once more, before using [Gate] to create a portal to the 50th floor of the dungeon. "Stay hidden by day and strike true in the night. Am I clear?" Scyron asked once more. The summoned demon nodded. Without another word Scyron then had disappeared into the dungeon.

Flashback ends

The entire day afterwards the Devil Thresher had spent by hiding in the shadows of the alleys and buildings as he had waited for the night. And now it had just started it's Task to cleanse this part of the city from the living sentient filth as his master had ordered it to. With this task their very existence became an unforgiveable sin to the devil, that only could be solved by their extermination. For this reason were it's claws and arms made. To crush, kill and mangle anything that displeased it's master.

Spreading the pataganium on the arms it jumped high in the air as it flew over the City and watched out for the next unfortunate scum that dared to show it's face in the moon light. The hunt had just begun.

After a while it picked up the footsteps of a single individual in the streets as it rather ran than walked. Landing on a rooftop nearby it persued the person as it disappeared inside an alley. With it's enhanced hearing the demon could hear loud and clearly when suddenly the person spoke to someone.

"Sorry. I haven't found him anywhere." It said.

"So you as well. Huh this is bullshit!" Another person said. The devil now looked down into a dead end where 6 cloaked men were standing.

"Are you telling me that guy just vanished into thin air?" A third voice said

"This is bad the Freya Familia pays a lot for the information about that guy." a fourth chimed in.

"Maybe he left the city." Suggested a fifth.

"No, that Scyron hasn't went through the gates. I've been there the whole day. He just disappeared." The sixth said. Now the devil was actually interested in these people. Or rather it was more eager to kill them.

"Anyway, we need to find that guy. We can't let this chance slip through our Hands." The second said. With that the devil jumped down and landed at the Exit of the dead end. The people were rather startled. "What the he-" The sentence was never finished as a clawed hand was thrusted through the man's throat.

"Holy-"

"What's going on?" The people said panicked. A voice straight from hell made their Skins crawl.

"You won't get out of here alive." The devil said as it dashed towards the men as they drew swords and daggers, but the weapons did no damage as the armor that encased the creature almost completely was much harder than simple steel. With it's long claws it tore the men open, one by one. After killing the 5th the last one was trying to scramble away as he pressed his body against the corner of the dead end.

"W-Who the hell are you?" He said shaking as he pointed his dagger at the demon.

"Your worst nightmare." The demon calmly stated as it simply walked over. And with that the hunt went on, until the sun rose again.

Meanwhile on the 11th Floor of the dungeon

Ottar was walking with a steady pace around the dungeon as he tried to find the adventurer that had gotten his goddess' attention. According to the spies that they had hired to persue this individual he had suddenly disappeared without a trace as if he had known that he was observed. Ottar gripped his sword as an orc was running him only to be cut in half. Normally Ottar was hard to get angry, but he had to confess that the current situation was irritating him slightly. It was like he was playing with her love. Gritting his teeth at this thought he punched an imp into ashes as it died immediately. Freya was getting slightly impatient almost like a child that had been denied something enjoyable.

"Just where are you?" He said as he stomped over to the 12th floor.

Later 59th floor

Scyron was having the time of his life as he beat all the dragon type monsters up on the 59th Floor as he was flying over the entrance to the 60th Floor. Not that he had the desire to go down there immediately though he was curious. Anyway, he was smacked by a large Ill Wyvern into the ground below as the other dragons decided to team up against him and fired their breaths at the grounded devil. Now Scyron actually felt a slight stinging feeling. He couldn't help but chuckle. The chuckling became a terrifying laughter as Scyron rose from the flames.

"This is it. This is pain. It's been so long since I felt this sensation. Hahaha! Now as gratitude for letting me feel again, I'll destroy you like the dragons that you are. [Triple Ma]-" Scyron was interrupted as suddenly some kind of purple sludge was hitting him from behind. The fire in his mind was put down as someone had thrown water on it. The demon turned around and saw how large caterpillar like monsters came from the 60th Floor and started devouring the dragons. As the sludge feel down on the ground it hissed and started dissolving the rocky ground, however as Divine Class Items the ony thing that hissed on his armor was the dirt, that got on it during the hours of fighting.
Still the sludge on Scyron's body was still attached to the mouth of one of these monsters as it suddenly swung it's head around to pull the devil to it.

"Oh no don't you dare to-" Again Scyron couldn't finish as the monster slurped up it's own corrosive acid string like spaghetti and dragged Scyron with it into it's circular maw. For a moment there was nothing, until suddenly the inside of the monster started to stretch and finally exploded into blood and gore with Scyron standing on the monster's body that hadn't disintegrated yet.

'Okay, this was the weirdest and most disgusting Thing I've ever experienced. I kinda feel violated right now.' He thought as another surge of anger spread through his mind as he laid eyes on the incoming caterpillars. There were several dozens of them and all of them were heading into his direction. "I don't know what kind of moth or butterfly had laid you, but I'm going to make sure that none of you will survive. [Maximize Magic: Call of the Eldest]!" Scyron shouted as he clapped his together.

In that moment the entire dungeon shook like being hit by an earthquake. The ground was split in two and the gap widened further with any second that passed. The rocks at the edge were pushed upwards and broke apart as if they were forming rows of sharp teeth In the gap wasn't the 60th Floor, but an eternal darkness from which tendrils of dark red glowing energy lashed out of the depths and slung around widly. They crushed monsters and rocks alike beneath them, swiped them into the gap or dragged them into the darkness.

[Call of the Eldest] was a 7th tier spell that was strong enough to kill low level players and monsters with a single swipe. Especially holy elemental creatures like angels were hit quite hard by such attacks. Also if the player or monster wasn't killed immediately, it was slowly down and damaged over time the longer it stayed in the vicinity of the spell. Right now hell was feasting on those that were foolish enough to form an oppression to Scyron. After 3 minutes the gap closed and a large portion of the caterpillars were now either crushed, ripped apart or swallowed by the abyss. The remaining monsters didn't cared the slightest for their comrades deaths as they simply devoured their magic crystals as well.

"[Maximize Magic: Obsidian Sword]!" Scyron said as his magic created a large obsidian claymore in the thin air. The magically created weapon shot out to the monsters and cleaved through them like a hot knife through butter. With simple motions of his hand, Scyron controlled the sword like a toy helicopter. The monsters were so dense, that they didn't recognised the weapon as a threat as it sliced their comrades into pieces. After a while the other monsters had died as well and Scyron's shadow was picking up the stones again which had an odd greenish color compared to the normally purple color of magic stones.

"Now this is quite something." Scyron said as he inspected one of the stones in his hands. It wasn't just the color that was different. Magic stones that he had encountered so far radiated some kind of energy, making them suitable fuel for most machines and devices in this world. This crystal, however, was emitting traces something else as well. Like a dark aura as if it had been close to something much more powerful for a long time so only this echo of it remained. "I'll have to investigate this later. For now let's head back to the upper floors." He said as he took off and used one of the holes in the ceiling to get up to the 51rst Floor. When he entered the floor again he simply walked towards the entrance of the 50th floor.

'Well it was fun. The dungeon seems to react to stronger opponents by spawnning stronger monsters and orders them to attack more aggressively. I actually took a little bit damage but it healed again. Who would have thought that three headed dragons were actually stronger? Okay who am I kidding? Of course they are.' he thought as he remembered the dragons of YGGDRASIL. They were the strongest kinds of monsters one could encounter in the 9 realms of YGGDRASIL and their high diversity in strength and forms made them even harder to beat when blindly rushing in. However the insectiod monster kind of bothered Scyron. 'What are they? And why do they appear now? Their magic stones were completely different from those of the the monsters so far. Perhaps the dungeon created them as well to fend me off. Or perhaps their origins are different from those of the other monsters in the dungeon. Should I name them? Yeah probably, but I'd have to fight a few more of them for that. Also I'm not so good in naming things.' Scyron thought.

The archdevil then arrived at the stairs that lead up to the 50th floor however his path was blocked. The large mass of the large green caterpillar like monsters were blocking the stairs with their large bodies. The caterpillar monsters looked at him as he released a fraction his killing intent to scare them off, hoping to open a path to the 50th floor. monsters, despite being simple minded creatures that normally just acted as the dungeon's antibodies against intruders, still understood the basics of instincts and among them fear. Still the sight of these monsters made him ill. One of them even had a black rhino in it's mouth, which it ate with a sick gusto. However, right after shooting the monsters a death glare all monsters had only one goal at all. Get the hell away from Scyron. Like a panicked herd of buffallos they set into motion with a speed no one would expect from a caterpillar, Not even one of that size. Within seconds all monsters climbed the stairs at a pace that would give some athelitics a run for their money.

"Was I too harsh?" Scyron asked as he calmly climbed up the stairs. He had all time of the world especially since he was a heteromorph. That meant that he was bascically ageless and immortal, however it was still very sad, because he knew that every friend he had made during his time in this world would sooner or later die. It was truly a sad thing. Then however he heard screams from upstairs. "Was someone on the 50th floor? Oh right. It's like a safe point there. How could I've forgotten about that?" Scyron said to himself as he ran up the stairs. Then, however, all the monsters from earlier seemed to be pushed back in the staircase, making them fall down the stairs like an avalance. Scyron looked at the incoming insect larvea with a deadpan behind his mask. "Are you fucking sh-" he didn't finish as one of the monsters crashed into him. And another. And another. For Scyron it was nothing. His armor had absorbed and nullified the whole force of the blow in no time. Instead he simply shredded the caterpillars on top of him into ribbons as his hands became large tentacle like claws, that tore the magic Stones out of their bodies.

When he had successfully freed himself from the unwanted hug of these creatures he spread his wings and took flight. Flying up the stairs the noises of yelling and screams became louder when Scyron arrived at a Scene that could have originated out of a trash horror movie. Dozens of the Monsters hung from the ceiling and walls as the others were on the ground and attacked a large group of adventurers. It was full out battle for the survival of the strongest.

'This must be the nightmare of everyone with entomophobia.' Scyron thought. "Well I kinda caused this mess somehow so..." Scyron said to himself as he looked for his first target. He found one of them trying to attack a few mages that stood rather away from the fight as their close combat abilities were rather limited. "Bingo. Now let's say hello. [Electrosphere]!" He said as a ball of lightning was forming over his right hand and threw it at the caterpillar.

Lefiya looked at the scene in terror as the monsters overwhelmed the adventurers. She was so distracted that her incarnation of a supporting spell failed. She was too afraid to move or act at all. The giant caterpillar loomed over her as her muscles went stiff, despite her mind screaming to run away as fast and far as she could. But she couldn''t move. It was like her limbs had frozen solid. The Monster looked down at her. She knew that it would be over now. And then...

"[Electrosphere]!" A loud voice called out as something crashed into the monster that was the closest to her. Everyone even the monsters looked at the dust cloud that had been kicked up by the sudden attack. What they saw made them gasp. The person was clad in black light armor while a tattered red cloak hung from it's back. The gauntlets resembled claws while a white mask covered the head. However the eyes were visible and they were the most frightening feature. Black sclera and yellow irises seemed to steal everyone's soul as they looked at the adventurers and monsters. The monsters however seemed to be afraid of the armored figure as they tried to back away from it. It however simply rose it's hand and pointed at a group of monsters. "[Hinotama]." Out of nowhere multiple large fireballs appeared in midair and crashed into the monsters. The impact caused explosions that tore the monsters into pieces in no time and the heat made the acid evaporate before it could do damage at all.

Now the monsters seemed to understand that this creature was unlike the others. However, Scyron was far from finished. He dashed to the closest Virga with high speed and cut it in two as his claws were slicing through the Monsters, though they put up far more resistance then the mosnters he had encountered within the dungeon so far. Scyron continued to attack like this until a monster, that hung from the ceiling, decided to sacrifise itself to ensure the destruction of the adventurers by letting go and fall on top of Scyron. All adventurers were sure that Scyron was dead now. Even if he wasn't he had at least a broken spine. But yet again to their suprise the demon wasn't. His pointed tail pierced through the head of the creature and killed it, revealing his long, spiny tail.

Deciding that it was time to end this, Scyron took off into the air until he was high above the ground and still out of range for the caterpillars that hung from the ceiling like bats. "[Maximize Magic: Thunder Smite]." He said as as electricity sparked from his hand which he pointed at the ceiling. After a second the energy began to discharge high amounts of electric energy from his hand as lightnings struck the battlefield below him and the ceiling. It almost looked like a willow tree as the lightning were first shooting up, before rushing to the ground, where they burned and electrocuted everything in the paths. Scyron was still in full control of where the lightning were striking and began to move them along the rows of monsters beneath him. He had to be very careful to not accidentaly hit one of the adventurers beneath him when he drew the lightning in lines over the ground, destroying everything in their path. The monsters died in a matter of seconds and exploded in smoke and magic stones, before they could even move their heavy and slow bodies away, but even if they would have succeeded they had nowhere to run. After a moment the bombardement stopped and the dungeon fell silent once again.

The devil waited for the dust that had been kicked up to settle down as he looked at his work. The part of the 50th floor that had been infested with the caterpillars was completely destroyed. Only pieces of vegetation were still standing there anymore, leaving the ground barren and burned. The adventurers starred shocked at the Devastation before looking at the demon. Scyron could feel and see it in their faces. The words fear or shock were etched on each of it. He just gave them a look as he simply staed airborne. He saw that most if not all of them had burns from the monsters' corrosive blood and salvia. When he hovered over the middle of the former battlefield, he cast a spell. "[Mass Heal Greater Wounds]." He said as he was engulfed by a green aura, which expanded until it formed a dome around him and shortly after the adventurers were glowing as well. To their shock their wounds disappeared and revealed perfectly healthy skin like the wound had never happened. Still too shocked to understand what happened the adventurers could only back away from the black armored demon as he descended to the ground and walked around the battlefield.

Then however he heard a sudden cry and looked towards the sound of the noise. That was something he shouldn't have done.

A tanned woman with long dark hair jumped up in joy as her wounds were healed, not caring that slightest that she was naked as her clothes probably had been disintegrated by the acid of the monsters. Scyron had to force down the massive blush on his face as he covered his eyes and used [Silent Cast: Teleportation] to appear behind the girl with his back to her. Tione looked suprised at this, but even more when he put his hand in a rift in the air and pulled out a white coat and threw it over her head.

"Seriously, put some clothes on." Scyron muttered as he walked past Tione. In that moment it seemed that she had caught up to the fact that she was naked and Scyron didn't look at her directly for that reason. After pulling the cloak over her head it shrunk in size, making it fitting for Tione, who looked in astonishment at this. Then however her face became smile as she looked at her twin sister.

"See Tiona, even that big scary guy doesn't look at me because of my big ones. If you were naked he probably wouldn't bother since you look like a boy." Tione said puffing her now covered chest out. Her sister however glared burning daggers at her, while Scyron simply shot her a look over his shoulder at this point.

"Why do you always have to point this out you buxom fiend?" She yelled as the two of them glared at eachother. Scyron almost chuckled at this as he heard footsteps coming closer to him. He turned around to see that he was indeed approached by a group of three people. One was a very short blonde man. One could mistake him for a child, but the way he walked and looked at him was that of an adult. The next one was a short and stocky built man with brown hair and a brown beard. Unlike his blonde collegue he wore metal armor, while the blonde wore simple clothes. The third one was a tall green haired elf with a white cloak.

Now that he saw the three he remembered to have seen them in the Hostess of Fertility earlier, what made it a bit harder to engage them in a conversation. Unless he would alter his voice to a degree where it would become impossible to be recognized as a human being. Deciding that that probably was the best Thing to do right now he calmed down a little. The group of the Loki Familia stood in front of him for a moment as both parties seemed to simply look at one another. The archdevil had no idea what in the was going on inside their heads, but he knew this calculating look in their eyes. They were seizing him, trying to figure something out, which most likely was his strength. The spear in the blonde's hand didn't help the slightest and neither was the axe in the dwarf's hand or the staff in the hand of the elf. Scyron may had just saved their skin, but that didn't kept him from tearing their guts out and hang them with them on the next tree. Then however the shorter man smiled and stabbed his spear into the ground, loosing the tension.

"I'd like to thank you for your assistance, however I wasn't sure if you were just some kind of monster." he said. Scyron waved him off.

"I only did what was right." Scyron said. "And your reaction, even when incredibly rude and intolerant," He said, his voice sounding like mutliple People spoke at once, as he looked at the other adventurers around him that still hadn't put their weapons away already, making them flinch. "it indeed is an understandable one given the situation you were in and still are." He finished crossing his arms. "Still it's probably not very good for the image of the Loki Familia."

"So you know who we are." The dwarf said.

"Who wouldn't? After all you are the only adventurers so far that I've met on this floor and the only ones I know who would go this deep. Not to mention the more famous individuals among your ranks." Scyron said giving Aiz Wallenstein a glance as she reached instinctly for her rapier. Scyron put a hand up in defence. "Be at peace. There is no need to draw your weapon, Princess of Blades. I have no intent to harm your party. Unless given a reason not to." Scyron said. Aiz didn't seem to buy this as her Hand remained on the handle of her weapon. Scyron sighed loudly at this. Then the blonde man spoke up again.

"Uh sir? Forgive me if I'm rude but what are you?" He asked.

"I'm a demon. Well a devil to be more precisely." Scyron answered honestly, taking the whole expedition off guard. Scyron only gave them a lazy look. "What? You live in a world with gods that descended from the heavens to the mortal realm, so why shouldn't demons exist as well?" Scyron asked. "I was coming here from the 60th floor as I decided to go back up to rest. But then something seemed to have pushed these monsters back into the staircase as I walked upstairs." he said. Everyone seemed to glare a bit at a certain silver haired werewolf, who looked away. "Though a few of your members could have taken care care of the situation on their own. My help was unnecesarry." Scyron said as he turned around to face the entrance to the 51th floor that had collapsed during the battle.

"60th floor!" a lot adventurers shouted.

"Yes 60th. Why are you asking is it such a big deal?" Scyron said crossing his arms. Immediately he was bombarded with questions about the lower floors and it really annoyed him. It was like a lot of presistent children were asking an adult about something so trivial that said adult might question their education. His tail whipped the ground once and made everyone shut up.

"Well I guess we took too much damage to continue further down. So we will go back to the surface." the blonde short man said.

"Ehh? Why?" Tiona whined.

"Don't ask such a stupid question you washboard! You weapon has totally dissolved by the acid of these things." Bete said, before glaring at Scyron who wasn't even reacting more than returning the glance. Ais meanwhile looked at the demon carefully, while Riveria did the same and Lefiya looked at Ais for some reason that Scyron didn't knew.

One hour later

When the convoy had finished to pack it's things, the adventurers were ready to leave the dungeon. There was however one thing that disturbed them. The one who managed to destroy almost an entire floor with one spell.

"Aren't you coming along?" Tiona asked. Scyron shook his head.

"I'll go back to the 60th floor. Doing some training." he answered.

"That will be difficult with the entrance to the 51th floor destroyed." the blonde pallum apparantly called Finn said. "Also we never asked for your name."

"My Name is None of your concerns. Perhaps I'll tell you it another time, but for now I'll Keep it secret. Oh and by the way, I can travel between the floors of the dungeon that I've seen as I please." Scyron said. The entire expedition groop looked at him with wide eyes or risen eyebrows.

"That's impossible. You have to use the stairs or perhaps the shafts to go deeper." Riveria said.

"No I don't. Look." '[Silent Cast: Teleportation].' He said as he suddenly appeared in front of her. Riveria jumped back in suprise. "Teleportation magic allows the user to travel instantly between 2 locations that are known to the user. I cannot teleport to a place that I don't know or that is secured against such magic, but I can instantly travel back to the floors I've been before." Scyron explained.

The high elf was again at a complete loss. She had studied magic from the day on she could read and now there was something she didn't even thought being possible at all. If the expedition had such magic they wouldn't need to travel days into the underground and simply go back to the 50th floor and start from there. But for that she needed to understand it. What were the magic's limits? How much did it take of one's own strength? How many people could be transported with it? Before she could ask him if he could tell her Scyron already turned his back on them.

"Good luck to get back up again. See'ya." '[Silent Cast: Teleportation].' With a flash of light Scyron had vanished from the 50th floor.

However unlike he said he simply went back to the alley he had came from yesterday as he donned his white armor and walked out into the streets, silently chuckling to himself as he just had seen the second most powerful familia in all of Orario. And they were a joke compared to him. This Feeling of Standing of a much higher ground somehow made him feel amused like watching an ants efford to crawl out a hill of sand that one had dumped on it. Yes, absolutely nothing could ruin this day.

30 minutes later

Scyron's day was perfectly and utterly ruined as he had heard the news of multiple men being found torn into shreds as if a rapid animal had attacked them. And he knew who had done this. Right afterwards Scyron had sought the demon he had summoned as he tried his best to find him. In the end his [Life Essence] allowed him to pinpoint it's Position due the massive difference in power in comparison to the other inhabitants of Orario.

And he found it, waiting in the shadow of an alley for the night. As the summoned creature saw Scyron it immediately kneeled down. Scyron stopped in front of the kneeling devil.

"Did I gave you the order to kill the criminals?" Scyron asked sternly instead of greeting his summon. The devil trembled visibly as it heard the displeasure in it's master's voice. Also it felt an enormous pressure pushing it down as if he was slowly being devoured by the ground below him. It didn't even dared to look up.

"No milord. You gave me the order to remove these criminals." The Devil Thresher said.

"Then why did you kill them?" Scyron asked.

"I... couldn't think of any other way to dispose them. These lesser lifeforms had no right to exist. Eradicated they-" The devil was cut off as Scyron's Patience finally ran out as he punched the lesser devil in the face, sending it flying into a wall of a Building. Looking at his master the devil didn't dare to stand up again. Scyron slowly walked over to the devil.

"That is not for you to decide." He said as he walked towards it. "I told you to not cause a ruckus and now the entire city is looking for a serial killer. I'm disappointed to say at least." He said as his tone grew darker and more dangerous. A rage that he didn't knew before crept up his mind. "Normally I'd just hang you now from some high place and let you die a very long painful and agonizing death, however given the fact that this is probably my fault I will not strike you down." Scyron said as he offered the devil a hand. The summoned demon quickly fell over and kneeled on all fours towards it's maker.

"Such mercy from you. I'm not worthy of it." It said.

"You are not indeed. Though I shall release you once you have answered my questions. Now tell me why you killed these men." Scyron said as he remembered that Devil Treshers are on level 32, making them rather superior to the monsters of the higher floors of this dungeon, but on the lower floors it surely would die.

"Of Course. Apparantly These men were contracted by the Freya Familia to spy on you." The Devil Tresher said.

"The Freya Familia? The strongest familia in all of Orario?" Scyron asked. 'Great! What did I got myself into this time? Geez, what is the problem with all these gods these days?' He mentally groaned.

"They didn't say it, but they said that the Freya Familia was paying them generously." The Devil Tresher replied. Scyron put a hand on his chin as he thought about this, trying to make sense of this.

"Was there anything else?" Scyron asked.

"No master. Please forgive my foolish behaviour." The summon said. Scyron sighed loudly at this, before he snapped with his fingers and the summoned creature dissolved into ashes. Without a word he made his way back to the Hostess of Fertility while trying to think of a logical sense behind these actions.

'Why are there spies contracted to follow me by the Freya Familia? Or why are spies following me at all? That's the better question. I knew it was risky to become an adventurer, but it cannot be changed right now. Perhaps I should think about an alternative approach.' Scyron thought as he went through multiple Scenarios that his brain created. He perhaps could start working in an inn like the Hostess of Fertility, however Scyron really wasn't used to be a waiter and he had basically always eaten mostly bad articles of food. Perhaps he could try to work as a farmer. Then again he had no idea how to work as a farmer at all since most if not all plant life on Earth had become extinct due the pollution. Also people that barely could make a living from the money they earned and had to conserve water and electricity whenever they could had no room to waste it on some plant in a pot where it would wither away anyway. The same was for pets.

Multiple other scenarios rushed through his head with Mach 20.

A construction worker? Never again!

A fisherman? He probably would electrocute all marine life out of frustration.

A flourist? No idea how to handle plants.

A secretary? He was a bit clumsy with this sort of thing. He spent his entire walk back to the Hostess of Fertility with his inner argument until he finally arrived at the building. Deciding that it was time to end his conflict he simply shrugged the issue off.

'Well at least I'm doing something I'm pretty good in.' Scyron thought as he abandonned the idea of getting a new Job. As he entered the inn there were only few customers there. It was already afternoon, but not late enough for Scyron to say that it was time for dinner. It was quite an unusual sight to see the inn that was normally full of adventurers and workers so empty when they had not closed. Scyron made his way to the counter as he put down his helmet. He was quickly greeted by Mama Mia.

"Well hello Scyron. I see you have come back already? Did you just run through the dungeon or did you just took a walk through the higher floors?" The tall woman laughed.

"Nah I just thought I'd take it slower from now on." The devil replied with a smile. He sure liked to talk like this. It was much friendlier and relaxed than his boss always shouting at him for no reason. It also reminded him of his former comrades from YGGDRASIL. Mia was giving Scyron a confused look?

"Okay what made you come back to the surface? I may haven't known you for Long, but I can tell that you aren't someone who just stops in front of a problem." Mia said trying her best to not speak to loud. The adventurers had already heard of the new one that managed to go so deep like no one ever did before at his approximate level 1 and make it his goal to actually explore the entire dungeon. Most adventurers laughed at this, thinking it was just a made-up story, however those that had seen him at guild knew that there was a truth behind this unlikely story.

"I simply think that I shouldn't get to overconfident about the dungeon and it's dangers. I might end up dead, before I even know it. But I guess in that case my corpse would simply go on without me and beat the Thing that killed me into submission itself." Scyron chuckled. "Could you give me a mug of beer?" He saked. Mia wasted no time andput the mug in front of him as he put some valis on the counter. "Thanks." Scyron said as he took a nip of his beer. It was of much better quality than the stuff he had drunk before. Mia looked at him for a second before walking of to another customer. The devil then put a more serious face on as he went back into thinking mode.

'Alright. The Freya Familia has most likely set up those spies to find something ut about me. Could it be that they know about my true nature? No that's impossible. Still if I act to hasty I will only draw even more attention to myself than I'd like to. In the best case I can find some high Level adventurers to make a party and go with them down, but that will be difficult. I know it isn't forbidden but members of a familia seem to rather stick together than going alongside others into the dungeon.' He thought as his mind looked for an alternative solution.

'And then there is the Loki Familia and the Hephaesteus Familia. I maybe just played with Loki's children there, but they have witnessed my demonic side though I didn't gave them my name. Kind of rude now that I think about it. There are two possible options now. One would be to venture as deep asI can into the dungeon at once, which should be a piece of cake actually, but that would also mean that 'that' would happen faster as well and I simply don't think I'm ready for 'that'. The second option would be to ask other adventurers and supporters to help them grinding, but that would be kind of hard, because no one trusts a stranger unless you are either very naive, optimistic or stupid. I could also try to join a familia, but I don't think a god's blessing and a demon mix well. And then there is the fourth alternative...' Scyron thought as he shook his head at 'that' thought. 'No. I still don't even know if this even works and the same goes for 'that' as well.' He thought as he downed his beer in one swing.

"Damn the beer tastes here good." He said.

"I'm glad to hear that nya." A familiar cat-like voice said as Scyron shot up from his seat and looked at a familiar brunette cat person waitress.

"Since when were you standing there?" Scyron asked.

"Not for long nya. Just long enough to over-nya-look you looking at your beer like nyou had a bad day nya." Arnya said as Syron's eye brow twitched slightly at her speaking habit.

"Is there any reason why you are always say 'nya' next to the fact that you are a cat person?" Scyron deadpanned.

"Of Course nya! I'm taking nya lot of pride in my heritage." Arnya said with her chest puffed out. Scyron mentally sighed at this.

'This place is weird, but probably only as weird as for them YGGDRASIL would be weird.' He thought as he put a few valis in her hand and went for the stairs. "Keep the rest as tips. I'll be in my room." Scyron said as he grabbed his helmet and walked up to his room. Inside of it he sat down on his bed as he looked down at his shadow, which wriggled a little. The shadow demon rose up from the ground, forming a silhoutte like a slime's only had it multiple red eyes. "Even if I'm engaged by the Freya Familia directly, joining them would only give me more trouble, but so would defeating them. Especially when the highest ranked adventurer is in their ranks. If it would be someone else, I could simply mop the ground with them, but that guy is a symbol for that familia. The pinnacle of adventurer's growth in power. Well so far..." Scyron said to himself.

He then opened his inventory and brought out one specific item. [Prometheus], the only World Class Item he had ever achieved to obtain and that just by chance. Well he was lucky to have it at all. Most People didn't even had one or even seen one to begin with. He knew what this item did and he knew how it could be used, but he wasn't sure if it really was okay to unleash it's power upon this world. Sighing he put it away again and toook out another book filled the demons that he could summon. But while he looked through Demon Marauders, Mages and Wendigos he couldn't help himself, but asking himself a simple question.

"Why did I save them?"

Meanwhile

Loud foots steps were echoing through a dark and wet cave. Armor rattled by the constant shifting of the metal plates. Pants of exhaustion and a lack of oxygen were still echoing through the cave. There was little light in it as only a few lamps on the back of the armored figure were providing light.

"Dammit what is going on? Where are the others? What are those things?" It was a young man with messy brown hair and eyes. The body was covered in steel armor without an helmet though. The young man leaned againt the wall of the cave as he drew ragged breaths and sweat dripped down his face. At the hip he had two scabbarns, but only one held a sword.

It was supposed to be an easy mission outside of the city. A few days ago lifestock of the local farms had disappeared and their tracks had led them to this cave. In fear that people could be the next victims the villagers had asked in Orario for help and a group of 8 adventurers had taken the Job. It wasn't really unusual that quests came from outside of the city. Multiple times monsters had escaped the dungeon and were now haunting the land. The party had assumed a group of goblins or perhaps kobolds to be responcible, but they weren't even to be compared to the Horror that now housed this cave.

The man suddenly shot up and looked into the darkness he came from. A wet dripping sound rang through the air and it was coming closer. Now a loud hiss was also to be heard. The man's face became horrified as he ran through the tunnel.

"I Need to get out. I need to get out of here!" He panted as he could see a light at the end of the tunnel. He basically sprinted to it, only to fall down from a quite tall height. Groaning he picked himself up as winced in pain. "Damn that hurt." he muttered as he rolled on his back to force his body up with his hands, but as he rolled over he came face to face with empty eyesockets of a skull. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" The man screamed as he lept up on his feet at this. All blood seemed to have been drained from his face.

The bones of the lifestock, that had disappeared, littered the ground and was basically dumped here as a small hill. Also multiple swords, each unique in it's design, were stabbed into the ground like tombstones. The man had to swallow in order to not vomit at this Picture. But then he heard something. It was a different type of noise. More like a shuffeling that came from above. Also small rocks seemed to fall to the ground as they fell on the bones of the dead animals.

"What do we have here?" A voice said. "A human? How interesting. Normally they bring me some animal to eat, but dead. No. They didn't brought you here. You found your way on your own. In that case you'll have a lot to tell me in the future." The voice said. Slowly the young man looked up before screaming. In the next moment a pair of jaws closed around him, swallowing the man whole.

On the next day

The demonic YGGDRASIL Player wasn't going out of his room this morning as he was experimenting. Right now there were three beings inside his room. Scyron himself, the shadow demon he had summoned and now a third demon. It looked like a rodent similiar to a rat or a mouse, but it had a pair of bat wings and on it's forehead sat a horn. It was just a small monster, though their attacks dealt a curse debuff which could get quite annoying for not very experienced players. The small creature seemed to behave like a normal rat, though a very smart one at that Point as it stood on it's hindlegs and looked at Scyron as if it was expecting him to do something. It's yellow eyes with slit pupils simply looked at him.

"And another summoning per day wasted on such a small creature. But then again if it was bigger it would be harder to hide and most of my summons are unfortunately bigger." Scyron thought loud as he looked at a book that laid on the table. As he sat down at it the small rodent climbed up one of the legs and actually stood next to the book. Flipping the pages over he looked for another creature to summon, though his possibilities inside this room were rather limited as he didn't want Mama Mia or the waitresses or anyone to find out about this. He then dismissed the thought of summoning another demon and the summoned rodent as he closed the book and put it into his inventory before he donned his armor.

He made his way back to the dungeon as it was almost midday. The Shadow Demon kept being disguised as his shadow as he began to pounder about that topic. The very fact that the monster was still there was something Scyron didn't understand. In YGGDRASIL summons were supposed to disappear after a certain amount of time, but the demon had kept him company for more than two days now. Scyron had multiple theories why the demon hadn't disappeared yet. One of them was that the concentration of energy that was related to holy and unholy creatures was in this world very high, allowing summoned demons and most likely angels to simply maintain their physical form on this world. Another theory was that the summons wouldn't disappear at all. He shook the thought out of his head as he entered the first floor. He could spent his time at another time with that topic. For now he had to kill something.

After a few hours of killing every monster that crossed his path and he had descended to the 5th floor out of boredom. However in that moment a scream rag through the corridors of the floor accompanied by the angry roar of a monster. He turned to the direction the scream came from as he ran towards it. Just as he reached the end of the tunnel he saw how a familiar white-haired boy was getting cornered by a minotaur. Reacting on instinct Scyron grabbed his greatsword and reared his arm back.

Actually Scyron was mainly a magic caster, but he had at least one warrior related job class to defend himself in close combat. With all the PKers in YGGDRASIL additional protection had been necesarry. That was why he needed a good shot right now. The sword became surrounded by a blue aura which made the sword glow.

"[Blade Bumerang]." Scyron said as he hurled his weapon forward. The sword flew through the air until it cut the drawn back arm of the minotaur clean off. The monsters screamed in pain as rivers of blood streamed out the stump. The blade did a Loop and flew right back into Scyron's hand.

The minotaur turned around to meet him with a fierce glare, which Scyron returned until Aiz suddenly shot through the tunnel and sliced the minotaur's leg, forcing it on it's knee. Again the bovine creature roared in pain, but in that moment it was the most vulnerable. Scyron used the opening and swung his fist right against the monster's face, making the head crash into the wall and caving it's snout in in a way it shouldn't be bent. Ais then quickly finished the job and sliced the monster in two as it gave a last pain filled cry as it disintegrated into smoke and a fist sized magic stone.

For a moment there was an awkward silence in the dungeon as Scyron and Ais looked at one another, before Scyron nodded and looked at Bell who looked stunned at the two. He was completely covered in blood from head to toe. Then he suddenly bolted away.

"Eh?" Scyron and Ais, who was quiter, said confused. The demon sighed before he turned around and picked up the magic stone.

"Here." He said as he threw the stone over to Ais, who easily caught it. "See it as a thank you for helping to save that newbie's skin." He said as he bowed out of politeness towards Ais. The blonde only tilted her head in confusion.

"Is he your friend?" She asked.

"Not really. I barely know him to be honest. But I don't think that it would be righteous to let someone die when I can prevent that from happening." Scyron said as he looked at Ais once again and turned around. "Until we met again Ais Wallenstein." He said before making his way out of the dungeon, leaving a rather confused girl in his wake.

Still as soon as he left a sudden nagging feeling started to appear in his mind.

'Why did I save them? Why did I save him? Why? They are nothing, but mortals. They should handle their problems on their own. After everything that human players have done so far in the past to me it would be understandable to just leave them to their deaths. So why?' He thought as he went back on the Surface. 'I just don't get it.'

And that's all for now folks. Thank you for reading and I also thank everyone who posted their opinions in the reviews. You are really helpful ;3. Please Keep writing your comments, opinions and/or suggestions in the reviews or send me a PM.

In any case, I apologise for not uploading fluently, but I have a real life like everyone else. I'm busy with other things IRL and I can't be online 24/7. I have still many ideas swarming my mind, what is incredibly distracting.

Now rather bad news, Danmachi has no german version of it's light novels, meaning that the only material I can work with is the anime and the Danmachi wiki. I know it's bad, but that's simply how it is. I can't change it. Meaning that I have to assume, predicte and be more creative with everything that comes after the anime, because it is sure as heck that animes like Danmachi or No Game, No Life won't get second anime seasons, but instead some kind of OVAs or even a movie that only make people temporary satisfied. That's about that.

And now as an apology for making you wait so long an honest trailer to this story, which I simply wrote last winter out of boredom. (Inspired by Smosh. I don't own that either.)

This trailer is rated H for honest.

From the author of Reaper of a New World and Entomophobia comes another Overlord crossover Story. But instead of reapers, dragons and insects, there are this time gods, mortals and demons.

Chthonian Infernalis

Come to a RPG like world that has suprisingly only one dungeon, which makes the city above it to the only really releveant place on this entire world to the story since the rest is like an ordinary world during the renassaince. A world in which the very gods of various mythologies have descended to earth in order to enjoy their lifes among the mortals because they were bored.

Wait they actually admit that heaven is totally boring? Damn I guess Aqua wasn't so wrong. And why are so many of them genderbender? (Censored Screen) Oh right... fan service...

But now a newer, better and more terrifying creature appears in this world. Someone with knowledge how the dungeon could work and how to beat it. A gamer. (Shows the gamer from the South Park episode 'Make love, not warcraft') Oh come on!

Join the demonic YGGDRASIL player Scyron on his journey through the dungeon and beyond as he meets already familiar characters like:

Bell Cranel, the boy who gets all the girls in this show and still doesn't get it even when every girl looks at him blushing like popping the question any moment. And only notices it when someone openly says it right in his face.

(Shows scene where Syr confesses to him.) Or ear in this case. Hey don't act suprised about that Bell. It's only natural for a girl that already had a crush on you to fall even more for you when you do the impossible in a positive way.

Welf Crotzo, the craftsman from a famous Family that is famous and infamous for their legacy, but he turned that down anyway, because of his ideals.

Lilly Ruka Arde, the loli girl, which is actually a very small and cute teenager and the non human companion of this fantasy series. Oh and she has a crush on Bell.

Hestia, the goddess with a crush on Bell too and a deity, that can offer nothing, but her kindness. She's the greek goddess of hearth isn't she? So she should be a natural in familias. Then why is her familia so damn small?!

Loki, the not awesome and good looking super villian of Marvel's Thor, but a red haired flat chested pervert, who's only going for her child Ais' butt and alcohol. She's probably the life force of every party.

(Play 'look at that booty' while showing a montage of Ais when ever she has her back to the camera and zoom to her butt. Then when Bell collides with his face with her rump, Loki with an angry expression. Inception sound effect) Triggered.

Freya, the manipulative bitch behind many bad events, which makes her as dead to me as Albedo from Overlord and Esdeath from Akame ga Kill!. I cannot be the only one who thinks that such people are just digusting. (Shows Freya in her light 'attire'.) AND PUT SOME CLOTHES ON ALREADY?!

So gear up, fetch your world class items and prepare for another story that most likely will take years to write.

Starring

Childhood Innocence (Bell)

Neo in disguise (Hestia)

Puppy Eyes (Lily)

Hammer Time (Welf)

Wendy's (Syr)

Kirsten Stewart's Face Expression (Ryuuon)

Bitch Level: Goddess (Freya)

Not Warrior Takemikazuchi (Takemikazuchi)

Not a pirate (Hephaestus)

Manny, the mammoth (Ganesha)

The next hangover (Loki)

Poker Face (Ais)

Not Wolverine (Bete)

Shiroe (Riveria)

EEP! (Lefiya)

Liz and Patty (Tiona and Tione)

Indiana Hermes (Hermes)

Azusa Yumi (Asfi Andromeda)

AND

Diablo (Scyron)

The god forsaken world: Raising hell

And now that's all for now. It will get harder to write and upload anything in the next weeks and months now, so I'll try to finish what I've started so far.

I hope I see you next time. Have a nice day ;)